Greener Globe World Powers Vow Cuts in Emissions


This year’s G7 Summit of the U.S., UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, plus the European Union, has agreed in principle that the global economy must be completely fossil fuel-free by the end of this century to curb destructive climate change. To that end, the nations agreed to work toward cutting emissions between 40 and 70 percent by 2050. German Chancellor Angela Merkel also announced that the G7 countries would raise $100 billion from public and private sources by 2020 to help poorer nations adapt. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace praised the action. In a statement, the Sierra Club called it “the first time that the leaders of the world have made clear with one voice that we must get off fossil fuels completely.” Two hundred countries are expected to commit in writing to specific plans for greening their economies at the United Nations Climate Change Conference this month in Paris.


Source: TheHill.com


Fungus Among Us Mushrooms Offer Pesticide-Free Insect Control


Paul Stamets, one of the world’s leading mycolo- gists, invented a fungus (mushroom)-based pesticide in 2006. An industry executive states, “This patent rep- resents the most disrup-


tive technology we have ever witnessed.” This “smart” pesticide provides a safe and nearly permanent solution for controlling more than 200,000 species of insects. Entomopathogenic (insect-de-


stroying) fungi are altered so they don’t produce spores. This actually attracts the insects, which then eat them and turn into fungi from the inside-out. The inven- tion has the potential to revolutionize the way humans grow crops.


Source: Earth. We Are One. View the pat- ent at Tinyurl.com/FungusPesticidePatent.


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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.


~Mahatma Gandhi


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